""Cancer: bad to the bone" - Nancy Mourad - UNSW 2016 3MT Runner up & ASPIRE Award

Nancy Mourad (St Vincent’s Clinical School, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Faculty of Medicine) gives her presentation ”Cancer: bad to the bone” for the 2016 UNSW Three Minute Thesis Competition. Nancy was the runner up, as well as receiving the Aspire Award, judged this year by students from Bass High School, Bankstown Girls High School and Canterbury Boys High School.

With just three minutes to give a compelling presentation on their thesis topic and its significance, the 3MT competition requires PhD and Research Masters candidates to consolidate their ideas and crystallise their research discoveries.

The annual event is organised by the UNSW Graduate Research School

http://research.unsw.edu.au/units/graduate-research-school

"Cognitive impact of stress" - Vera Newman - UNSW 2016 3MT 3rd Place

Vera Newman (School of Psychology) gives her presentation: ”Stressed” spelled backwards is “desserts”: Understanding the cognitive impact of stress and how to turn it around” for the 2016 UNSW Three Minute Thesis Competition, where she received third place.

With just three minutes to give a compelling presentation on their thesis topic and its significance, the 3MT competition requires PhD and Research Masters candidates to consolidate their ideas and crystallise their research discoveries.

The annual event is organised by the UNSW Graduate Research School

http://research.unsw.edu.au/units/graduate-research-school

"Desirable defects: Nano-scale structures of piezoelectrics" - Patrick Tung - UNSW 2016 3MT Winner

Patrick Tung (School of Materials Science & Engineering) gives his winning presentation ”Desirable defects: Nano-scale structures of piezoelectrics” for the 2016 UNSW Three Minute Thesis Competition.

With just three minutes to give a compelling presentation on their thesis topic and its significance, the 3MT competition requires PhD and Research Masters candidates to consolidate their ideas and crystallise their research discoveries.

The annual event is organised by the UNSW Graduate Research School

http://research.unsw.edu.au/units/graduate-research-school

"Performance-based identity" - Benjamin Walker - UNSW 2016 3MT People's Choice Award

Benjamin Walker (School of Management, UNSW Business School) gives his presentation ”A saucy talk about performance-based identity” for the 2016 UNSW Three Minute Thesis Competition. Benjamin received the People’s Choice Award, which was judged by a general audience.

With just three minutes to give a compelling presentation on their thesis topic and its significance, the 3MT competition requires PhD and Research Masters candidates to consolidate their ideas and crystallise their research discoveries.

The annual event is organised by the UNSW Graduate Research School

http://research.unsw.edu.au/units/graduate-research-school

1.2016 UNSW 3MT Final

How do you condense years of research down to just three minutes? That’s the challenge for 23 competitors in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT). For the winner, there’s the honour of representing UNSW at the Asia-Pacific 3MT and the U21 global virtual final, along with some handy prize money.